After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’
Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’
Photography
The Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’
Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’
An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’
Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’
Mónica de Miranda explores African diasporic experiences and Europe’s colonial past in new Shoreditch exhibition
The Angolan-Portuguese artist’s latest work will be on display at Autograph from 24 June
‘We are gold and we should have been looked after’: Woman behind Grenfell photography book uses Hoxton exhibition to highlight lack of support
Feruza Afewerki was joined by survivors and people bereaved by the fire ahead of next week’s anniversary
Mabley Green Class of ’21, Benjamin Hughes, book review: ‘The art of rock-climbing on the plains of Homerton’
The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park
Dexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’
The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’
Artist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks
The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more
Exeunt – The Stage Door Project, Lloyd McDonagh and Salvatore Scarpa, book review: ‘Oblique yet poignant angle on thespian life’
Actors McDonagh and Scarpa talk to the Citizen about their intimate portrait of the pandemic’s impact on theatres
‘How can we shift the narrative?’ Photographs of smiling Black schoolboys go on display around Hackney as ‘call to action’
Exhibition by artist Kay Adekunle Rufai closes out this year’s Black history season
Ten artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery
Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak
Future Hackney collective returns with more stories and photographs from Ridley Road
Ridley Road Stories Part 2 goes on public display today under Hackney Central bridge on Mare Street
Hackney swimmers feature in charity photographs celebrating the power of water
Local swimmers from London Fiel;ds Lido and West Reservoir Centre take part in WaterAid campaign
One Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’
The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’
#HackneyIsHome: Photographs by members of the public celebrate life in the borough
Shoreditch gallery Autograph unveils selection of submissions for project honouring a ‘brilliant place to call home’
Anne Hardy: Rising Heat, Maureen Paley: ‘A piece of waste becomes a diaphanous pink ghost’
The first show at the gallery’s new Studio M is ‘well worth a visit’